Gen Con 2026 is in the books, and you might be excited to learn that both Steve and Irene held their own Toon events this year, complete with pre-gen characters and all!
I'll let Steve tell you all about it!
I ran two Toon events at Gen Con. I'd love to tell you ALL about the games, but I don't want to spoil anything!
I was using the second edition rules, but the only way that affected the players (some were new, but some were experienced Tooners) was in the character sheets I handed out. There are a manageable 12 skills, and not 21 or whatever it was in the first edition. I don't pretend to have the rules memorized, but Toon is intuitive enough that I could easily be Animator without putting the book on the table. Instead of rolling on the occasional Silly Stuff table, I just said the first thing that came into my head, and that worked perfectly well . . .
At any rate, there sure were incidents that I can describe without giving away the plot! - A character summoned Cthulhu and sent the Great Old One downtown to eat his father. (And that was what happened, too.) - A baby was enclosed in a bubble (LONG story). A character whipped a magnifying glass out of her back pocket and tried to focus the sun to pop the bubble. Instead, it heated up the air in the bubble, and the baby floated up and away and out of the plot. - A loose rake was stepped on so often (WHAM) that it seemed prudent to draw it on the game map. (I could tell you why we were using a game map with Toon, but then I'd have to focus the sun's rays on you to make you forget.) Nevertheless, the players continued WHAM to forget that the rake WHAM was there WHAM. So their characters forgot too WHAM. - A character had the special power "Snerk," which benefits them any time the player makes the Animator laugh out loud. Well, this player found my funny bone, and I kept forgetting not to laugh. And did they abuse this mighty power? Of course. Repeatedly. WHAM. - A player (not even the same one) referred to a grumpy NPC badger as "president of the HOA". Somebody else said "Hole Owner's Association". All right – that goes into the adventure for real, when it's printed!
So I had a great time, and the players were smiling a bit, too. Win-win.
- Steve Jackson
A quick picture from Gen Con with pregen characters.
A Peek at Layout
Last update, we mentioned providing a glimpse of the current layout, and I was able to sneak a picture or two your way. Check out the in-progress layout below! Remember, this is all still very much in progress and still needs to go through reviews and approvals. Let us know what you think in the comments.
We're getting closer and closer each day to holding the pre-mortem final review and uploading the files to the printer. The ultimate goal here is to deliver some zany and wacky fun to your gaming table and we're almost there! You can expect to hear more about the pre-mortem review and printing in a future update.
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